Knihy od: McEwan, I.

Serena Frome, the beautiful daughter of an Anglican bishop, has a brief affair with an older man during her final year at Cambridge, and finds herself being groomed for the intelligence services. The year is 1972. Britain, confronting economic disaster, is being torn apart by industrial unrest and terrorism and...

Serena Frome, the beautiful daughter of an Anglican bishop, has a brief affair with an older man during her final year at Cambridge, and finds herself being groomed for the intelligence services. The year is 1972. Britain, confronting economic disaster, is being torn apart by industrial unrest and terrorism and...

'Letzter Sommertag' vereint eine Auswahl von Geschichten aus den Büchern 'Erste Liebe, letzte Riten' und 'Zwischen den Laken', mit denen Ian McEwan berühmt wurde.

Charles Frieth, pre-eminent composer, conductor and prodigious womaniser, is preparing for a performance of one of his early works, and the world premiere of Demonic Aubade. Obstinate and myopic, he is oblivious to the growing turmoil around him; his wife´s poor health and dissatisfaction; the exhausted efforts of his secretary;...

Je n´ai pas tué mon pre, mais parfois j´ai l´impression de l´avoir un peu poussé dans la tombe: ainsi parle Jack, quatorze ans, témoin et acteur d´une aventure peu commune... Ils sont quatre orphelins deux frres, deux surs livrés eux-mmes dans une maison isolée. Affranchis de l´autorité des adultes, la...

It is July 1962. Edward and Florence, young innocents married that morning, arrive at a hotel on the Dorset coast. At dinner in their rooms they struggle to suppress their private fears of the wedding night to come and, unbeknownst to them both, the events of the evening will haunt...

Pour Henry Perowne - neurochirurgien réputé, mari heureux, p re comblé d´un musicien de blues et d´une poétesse - ce devrait tre un samedi comme les autres. Pas question d´aller défiler contre la guerre en Irak. Plutôt go ter les plaisirs de la vie. Et pourtant... Un banal accrochage...

Observer `Impressive´ Eve Magazine ´One of the great unrequited love stories.

The critical response to Saturday must be making Ian McEwan a very happy man (not that his virtually unassailable position as Britain

On a chilly February day two old friends meet in the throng outside a crematorium to pay their last respects to Molly Lane. Both Clive Linley and Vernon Halliday had been Molly´s lovers in the days before they reached their current eminence, Clive as Britain´s most successful modern composer, Vernon...

Peter Fortune is a daydreamer. He´s a quiet ten year old who can´t help himself from dropping out of reality and into the amazing world of his vivid imagination. His daydreams are fantastic and fascinating - only in the bizarre and disturbing world of dreams can he swop bodies with...

Henry Perowne, Neurochirurg, 48, ist ein glücklicher Mann: Er hat Spaß an der Arbeit, beim Sex mit seiner Frau, liebt Musik und seine Familie, ißt gern und treibt gern Sport. Als wohlhabender Mann hat er ein wohlgeregeltes Leben. So scheint sein freier Samstag klar vor ihm zu liegen: Er wird...

Black Dogs is built around a brilliant short story, a memerically slow-motion encounter with two terrifying dogs by an English couple who are honeymooning just after the war in a French mountain village.

In the relentless summer heat, four abruptly orphaned children retreat into a shadowy, isolated world, and find their own strange and unsettling ways of fending for themselves...

A collection of macabre short stories. Ian McEwan received the Somerset Maugham Award in 1976 for a previous collection of short stories entitled First Love, Last Rites.